GOP Aims to End Inquiries Into Strike on Drug Boat Survivors

Republican lawmakers indicated they intend to suspend any further inquiries into a hotly debated U.S. military strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean on Sept. 2.

Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement Thursday that he had seen “no evidence of war crimes” in the operation, which killed two people who survived an initial U.S. attack on their boat.

Wicker expressed confidence that the Trump administration’s military campaign in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific against suspected drug traffickers has been conducted “based on sound legal advice.”

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